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Thurston, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Flournoy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68062. The Survey maps it on the Thurston quadrangle. 116 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,394 feet above sea level.

Thurston within Thurston County

Population over time

2 figures

Thurston fell from 132 to 116 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010132
2020116-16 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Thurston between 2002 and 2019, burning about 312 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 June 2002Smoking17 acresWinnebago AgencyA1302052
21 April 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWinnebago AgencyROSALIE #003
1 April 2015Misuse of fire by a minor280 acresWinnebago AgencyBIA #474
31 March 2019Arson/incendiarism15 acresWinnebago AgencyBIA #04-19

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Thurston County

Storms near this place

21 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thurston in 21 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 12 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2019FloodThurston$60,000This is for flooding along the Logan Creek. The river gage at Pender, operated by the Nebraska DNR, peaked at 28.8 feet at 8 am on March 14th. Major flood stage is 23 feet. Preliminary this peak is the highest on record. Though the town is protected by a levee, some significant flooding did occur in Pender. Water entered the Pender Community Center, as deep as 1.5 feet in some places. Highway 9 was closed as water was over the road.
August 2020HailThurston-Public reported golf ball sized hail.
May 2019Heavy RainThurston-Measured 3.93 inches of rain northwest of Thurston.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindThurston-The emergency manager reported that several trees were reported downed between Pender and Emerson.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindThurston-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed trees in town and also caused some roof damage.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindThurston-Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph downed small branches in the area.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindThurston-Tree limbs and corn were blown down by thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph.
August 2007HailThurston-The hail was accompanied by 50 mph winds.
July 2003Flash FloodThurston-Heavy rain caused flash flooding in parts of Thurston county. Part of a county road bridge was washed out east of Rosalie, and flood waters caused a culvert to collapse which damaged a road east of Thurston. Rainfall of 5.5 inches was reported east of Thurston from the thunderstorms.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindThurston-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph blew down a few center pivots, grain bins and trees northwest of Thurston. A few outbuildings were also damaged.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindThurston-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 mph downed power lines and arm size in diameter tree limbs in Thurston. The winds were accompanied by nickel size hail.
July 2016HailThurston-no account filed
July 2007HailThurston-no account filed
September 2007HailThurston-no account filed
August 2005HailThurston-no account filed
July 2003HailThurston-no account filed
July 2003HailThurston-no account filed
July 2003HailThurston-no account filed
June 2003HailThurston-no account filed
August 2002HailThurston-no account filed
June 2001HailThurston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Thurston County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pender4.4 miles9
Walthill11.4 miles10
Winnebago12.8 miles10
Rosalie13.0 miles9
Macy18.8 miles9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on ThurstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2406599The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 834107. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.